This is definitely not the least effort. They could’ve not done the shading between the folds of the clothes, skipped the whorls and swirls on the shovel handle, all sorts of things.

This just seems low-effort now because AI really did prefer this style, and stole it, but this took so much more effort than you’re giving them credit for.

This is exactly why artists hate AI, it doesn’t undervalue their work directly, it gets real people like you to undervalue it. Don’t let AI determine your opinions so easily.

If both snails start in different places, they’ll still eventually meet up as they converge on you.

After some time it’s the exact same benefit and problem.

Ooh it does. So yeah, options. Hiver would also be more subtle than Hoarfrost, less “Zephyr”

Alliteration sounds great, mostly. Hanna Frost wouldn’t sound as good as Hanna Hoarfrost, at least in my opinion.

And there aren’t that many H cold words.

Plus, hoarfrost looks awesome, too.

Hoarfrost is cold-themed. I think its unique but shouldn’t raise too many eyebrows, and you get alliteration.

Hannah Hoarfrost, or Heather Hoarfrost, both sound neat. Does it sound good with your particular H name?

He switched to claiming it was her left hand, but she didn’t let him get away with that, since he was 100% confident before, and just kept checking as if he didn’t switch.

Of course, right and left hands are in different places, so the thought of her using her left hand to be on her phone on her right side while simultaneously driving with no hands at all is ridiculous.

What’s the first letter of your first name? Perfect chance for some alliteration. Esther Essington, Gretchen Gesundheit, etc.

Yes. Don’t put people in uncomfortable situations.

But also, if they don’t know about the real cause, you may still hurt their feelings. If you can find another reason to decline it may go better.

That’s his point though, he does expect them to be able to set up themselves, and apparently Plex is good for that.

Let the people die.

The staff of the Magi explodes when its destroyed in a 30’ radius.

The people are dead either way, the staff can be saved.

I dont know of any specific ones, but in my experience, I haven’t had one that wouldn’t, as long as the charger could match the voltage the device needs.

What pivoting?

It changes the plans of shuttering a server, not offering a new one. Any such independent play patch soils only be released when a company is ready to end servers.

A new game previously intended to be released December 31st of this year, caught off guard with just one day of warning, could still release without changing a thing. The game will have servers for years to come, presumably.

Yeah, fair. I dont do a ton of that, myself.

I build a heavy cargo ship with a bunch of raw supplies, assemblers, roboports, and ingredients for a rocket, go to the planet, slap down a rocket, some solar, a roboport, and logistics chests, and leave.

If I have to return in person, I have failed my challenge.

What didn’t you like about the expansion?

Biggest complaint I’ve heard (besides Quality complainers) is that they don’t like that T3 modules got retconned into needing other planets to get.

I personally find that a good change, and also quality is ignorable. I don’t have nearly the hours you have into it, but a respectable high triple digit number, and about 200 I’d guess of those has been post-space age. Haven’t actually played base since space age launched.

Its also been proven that people who’ve had alcohol, just the proper one or two glasses, form better and longer-lasting bonds and are less inhibited, reducing social anxiety. In the context of a business dinner, that IS a productivity boost. Even if no one loses themselves completely, that sales client or coworker thinks better of you and knows you better, because of that.

Booze has been key in human social interactions since the beginning. Shame its literally poison.

It was Apple.

That hasn’t been true for years now

These shenanigans are exactly why most spells with an otherwise-unlimited range are limited to their plane of existence.

Good loophole, would also allow it, RAW it should in fact work, although depending on the afterlife in question it may not produce a useful result, the person might be a lemure with no memories or something similar, depending on how long they’ve been dead.

Honestly, I don’t know exactly what google can or can’t track if the app developer doesn’t specifically enable them. I don’t have specific evidence that they’ll even be able to tell if the user was verified or not

What I do know is they have repeatedly shown that they’re happy to hide or lie about what and how they track people, and more broadly about their business as a whole.

Again I cite the drug analogy. Google is in the business of tracking people and harvesting data for ads. It’s like inviting the cartel to the DARE program and expecting everything to go swimmingly.

If they want their age verification app to actually be anonymous, they shouldn’t force people to use a tracking service to use it. The app specifically won’t be functional on degoogled android phones and won’t be offered on desktop computers. Maybe Google can’t spy on anything going on in the app, but even so, they could correlate “used verification app, roblox usage went up” or “used verification app, continued to use Tinder, concluded adult, ignoring ‘do not track’ preference as it doesn’t violate laws about tracking minors”.

It’s true that a minority of users have taken the steps where this inferred information would be particularly helpful to google, but not having the option to opt out is going to get harder and harder, and this service doesn’t provide enough good to give the information cartel that is Google any more information, even inferred, in my opinion.

It can’t be anonymous if you need a google or apple account to use. I’m not concerned about what the government tracks (well, not in this context at least), I’m concerned about who and what they’re working with to do the tracking. If the app verifies me as an adult but I couldn’t use the app without google butting in, google now has yet another data point in a secret ad profile that the government should be putting a stop to, not helping them build up. It’d be like announcing a plan to stop illegal drug usage by partnering with the cartel.

If they wanted a government-sponsored age verification sort of thing, it should’ve been an app whose only job was to type in a code you got from going in person to some government body and verifying in person. Town office, DMV, somewhere like that.

More fundamentally, though, “protecting the children” shouldn’t go anywhere near anything that can be used for identity theft. Showing my ID to the cashier at the cigarette shop is significantly safer than showing it to any business on the internet, because sharing a high-quality picture of something is giving them a copy. The cashier gets to see it, but it never leaves my sight and isn’t recorded in any way except probably some dodgy security camera where you can’t read it anyway.